New Baby Cresties. Perch worries

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Originally Posted by Seru1

I plan to do crickets once a week. Regular was all they had at the show, sadly I bought a big bag. He said they stopped making the two bag forumla cause people mixed it wrong. If I needed to mix fruit baby food how much should I mix per say 5 oz?

I freeze cause my job keeps me slightly busy and I heard it was a time saver.

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Well, if you are putting it in a sprite lid, say, half a sprite lid full of CGD, I was putting maybe, half a penny size amount of baby food and stirring it together.

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Originally Posted by AkHerps

Well, if you are putting it in a sprite lid, say, half a sprite lid full of CGD, I was putting maybe, half a penny size amount of baby food and stirring it together.

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I can do that, with luck they will eat the CGD. I am gonna bring some crickets home monday but they are so small! I wonder if I can fine crickets they can eat. They just came home today

Crickets grow pretty fast so if you keep them around and feed them good for a week they will get bigger.

If you can't find crickets for 'em, no biggie. All my geckos except females that are close to breeding size or breeding get strictly CGD.

As for decoration, I've used fake vines from wal-mart's craft section.. no glitter or stuff like that, just the plain leafy vines. For baby cresteds, you can just jam a curled up section in there, and because it's fairly stiff it will create vertical space for them to climb in.

I was pondering using a length pf PVC and some suction cups with hooks to make a little hanging tunnel but I didn't know if they'd use it.


I guess beer bottle are out? A roommate suggested that and It just seemed like a terrible idea.

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Originally Posted by AkHerps

Crickets grow pretty fast so if you keep them around and feed them good for a week they will get bigger.

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I meant the geckos are small

I use paper towel rolls and small PVC pipes for perches (along with fake plants of course), and toilet paper rolls for ground hides. My crestie loves them!! :D

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Originally Posted by blushingball419

I use paper towel rolls and small PVC pipes for perches (along with fake plants of course), and toilet paper rolls for ground hides. My crestie loves them!! :D

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Do you sand the PVC at all? I have some gargs to and I hear they need a rougher surface as they grow.

No, I don't sand them, but that is a good idea if that's what gargs need! But from what I've read about cresties, they can climb any kind of surface, and I've seen her jumping around on them with no grip problems.

Gargs have pretty decent claws and use them to grab on to the bark of trees and their branches. If you look at a crestie on glass, and compare their feet to a garg's, it's pretty easy to see that the gecko's feet are "better" at creating Van der Waals forces. CGs have claws too, but I do find they do better on smooth surfaces than gargs.

Regardless, I find that they all just prefer rough surfaces. My cresteds like to hide behind leaves and in plant-y stuff, while my experience with gargoyle geckos leads me to believe they're a little more tolerant of just chilling out on a chunk of cork bark in the semi-open.

NEVER feed baby food to your crestie .... the only reason a crestie will eat it is because its sweet , same way as a child would rather eat candy than healthy food....

All cresties will eat the CGD when they get hungry might take a while but theyre not going to starve themselves.... the CGD is designed to be a complete food source with everything they Need .... Crickets most people only feed a few once every week or two dusted in calcium:gj:

For perches I just get 6 foot x inch or two bamboo poles from Michael's craft store and cut to size